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As follow-up of the AN/I-case against User:Patrick McDermott25 I hereby request a further investigation in sockpuppets concerning Patrick Mcdermott25 and User:SosaysPatrickMolloy (who is most likely stale from a CUs point of view). Main battle ground of Mcdermott25 is the article Hiberno-English, an article where amongst others SosaysPatrickMolloy, the given IP and the suspected sockpuppet SecretagentFrog12 were active on. The Banner talk 19:34, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

I advice also to have a check for sleepers. The Banner talk 20:39, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

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I'd support this investigation; it's plainly the same individual involved in all these accounts. The mention of sleepers is interesting as the thought had crossed my mind in regard to the users behind some other edits in the broad topic area; one in particular, though nothing entirely conclusive. Mutt Lunker (talk) 21:24, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * ✅. Users already blocked. . Closing SPI...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   22:19, 29 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Added tags. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:26, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

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On 1/4/21, 64.43.161.237 made two edits that were soon reverted for being unreferenced. On 1/13/21, Patrick Mcdermott25 made two edits to the same page amounting to almost exactly the same change to the article made by 64.43.161.237 nine days earlier and also soon reverted (this time by me). Because the two edits were so similar, it appears that one account is a sockpuppet of the other. The second edit by Patrick Mcdermott25 was made in such a way as to misrepresent a preexisting citation already in the article, so it was perhaps more disruptive than the first one by 64.43.161.237. Dugan Murphy (talk) 15:48, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * Closing as stale, IP hasn't edited in several weeks. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:34, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

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Tag-teaming with some IPs (dynamic?) on various articles. On Gaels, the material being edited in by (the quite precocious) Oneunderoath and the IPs is quite similar to previous edits on the page by Patrick Mcdermott. For example, note in both of those edits the reworking of the fragment "bring both Ireland and the Highlands under stronger centralised control" to remove or separate the Highlands from Ireland, and addition of "Irish" before "Gaels".Sambe behaviour from Oneunderoath and IPs in Plantations of Ireland, along with another new account, Snoopdoggydawg. CMD (talk) 06:27, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

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''Accused parties may also comment/discuss in this section below. See Defending yourself against claims.'' I have added another IP to the list to bring another suspected IP and/or range into the fold. The Banner talk 08:37, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Support, per blatant WP:QUACK. Mutt Lunker (talk) 11:16, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

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 * Oneunderoath and Snoopdoggydawg are to each other. Past socks in the archive are, but the data seems consistent with historical checks in the log. . Mz7 (talk) 06:35, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Blocking both as socks and closing.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  08:30, 24 October 2021 (UTC)